[MPlayer-users] <A.D.D> linux user overwhelmed with information; please recommend the best devices for Mplayer

[Robert R. Wal]

On 02.11.04 Robert L. Hiett pressed the following keys:

> I just ordered the hollywood+ em8300 chipset becuase I heard that the
> dvd decoder chips are garbage on the consumer video cards and I heard
> Mplayer supports this. Will I only be able to use the "tv-out" feature
> for watching dvd's on this card, or will I be able to watch divx flicks
> on my tv using this tv-out portion of this card?

MPlayer support for this card is quite good and getting better. The only
problem with it so far was a/v sync which seems to be fixed in CVS.

I use the variation of this card (DXR3) personally and I'm happy with it.

You can use it to watch MPEG1 (VCD, mpg files) and MPEG2 (DVD, SVCD)
utilising card's decoder, so there is almost no usage of CPU.

You can also play everything mplayer can play through this card with the
help of realtime MPEG1 encoder. Thing is the card can only display mpeg
streams, it has no ability to display uncompressed frames, so you have
to convert to mpeg everything that isn't already mpeg.

It takes more CPU, but results are very good, and hires DivX (512x384,
640x480 and higher) looks almost as good as analog TV (as long as it
isn't bitrate-starved).

With complicated filters to perceptually enhance the poor quality video
(low bitrate 352x240 AVI flicks someone recorded with poor quality tv
card) like -vop lavc,expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1,noise=5t,scale=512:384,pp=0x7f
it takes no more than 30-40% of my xp1700+. And remember, this is
realtime mpeg1 encoding.

Robert

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